Regular deaths on the highways of Bangladesh have become quite a "normal" thing.
Time to put people’s safety at the heart of policymaking
Over 80 percent of the 7,713 road crash victims last year were aged between 18 and 65 years, the most productive segment of the population, Road Safety Foundation said yesterday.
New RTA rules can improve safety if properly enforced
A sharp and unregulated growth of vehicles, especially motorcycles and three-wheelers, over the last few years has resulted in a spike in the numbers of road crashes and casualties.
The family of a person killed in a road crash due to reckless or negligent driving will get at least Tk 5 lakh in compensation.
A seven-year-old boy was killed after a train ran over him in Dhaka’s Moghbazar Wireless area this afternoon (August 8, 2022).
Two people were killed and two others were injured in a head-on collision between a truck and a covered van in Tarash upazila of Sirajganj early today.
Two persons died in separate accidents in Dhaka’s Bhatara and Tikatuli areas early today.
Four people, including a woman and her daughter, are killed after a bus hit a CNG-driven auto-rickshaw in Noakhali’s Begumganj.
At least seven people were confirmed dead after a bus veered off and fell into a ditch in Madaripur Sadar today.
The bus driver and his helper has been placed on remand over the death of Sylhet Agricultural University (SAU) student Wasim Afnan.
Seven people, including three women and a child, were killed and six others injured in a head-on collision between a bus and a three-wheeler in Barishal's Banaripara upazila yesterday.
More than 70,000 vehicles have not had their fitness certificates renewed in 10 years, and many of them are on the road posing serious risks of accidents.
A madrasa teacher is killed after a truck hit him on a road in Dhaka’s Mirpur area.
A college student has been run over in Sirajganj’s Kamarkhand upazila amidst renewed student protests for safer roads throughout Dhaka.
A section of students, who were staging demonstrations demanding justice to one of their fellows killed in a road crash in Dhaka, announces to postpone the ongoing agitation till March 28.
A schoolgirl lost her legs and two others suffered injuries when a rickshaw-van carrying them was hit by a lorry in Sarsha upazila of Jashore this morning.
Three motorcycle riders were killed after their vehicle was hit by a train at Bhennabari level crossing in the Gopalganj Sadar upazila.
